[OSM-talk] how to tag travellers camps?

[Lester Caine]

Simone Cortesi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:17 PM, graham <graham at theseamans.net> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any ideas for tagging traveller's camps? There are
>>  quite a few round my way, long-term caravan sites with hard surfaces,
>>  AFAIK all gypsy and not open to random caravanners.
>>  landuse = travellers_camp?  Or 'gypsy site'? I'm trying not to fall
>>  between lack of political correctness and something that will be
>>  misunderstood in any language but english..
> 
> the meaning of "gypsy site" to me, being a non-native english speaker,
> is quite understandable.
> 
> We even do have a word-to-word translation for it in italian, being,
> the maybe more politically correct: campo nomadi (nomad site/nomad
> camp).

I think the problem here is one of 'political correctness' since there is a 
distinct difference between travellers and gypsy groups and while neither may 
be bothered by the be distinction on a map, There is a difference between site 
allowing for transient occupation, and permanent sites more akin to 
residential caravan sites.

We do then get into the discussion on *IF* we should record the position of 
such sites where they have been established without any regard to local 
planning rules. I only flag that one since a new site has appeared not far 
from here which is a privately owned field but which has been converted into a 
well provisioned permanent site over a single weekend.

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